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Colorado approves balcony solar, requires utilities to accept meter collars

Kelly Pickerel — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:26:35 +0000

Colorado is the latest state to approve plug-in solar (also known as balcony solar) after Gov. Jared Polis signed HB26-1007 into law. The legislation led by Reps. Lesley Smith and Rebekah Stewart and Sens. Cathy Kipp and Matt Ball that will make it cheaper and easier for Colorado families, including renters and apartment dwellers, to…

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ReVision to build 1.34-MW community solar array atop former landfill

Kelly Pickerel — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:14:56 +0000

ReVision Energy is developing a community solar array atop the former municipal landfill of Jaffrey, New Hampshire. The project is expected to come online in early 2027. Under the agreement, the Town of Jaffrey will lease the capped landfill site to ReVision Energy for the solar installation and receive annual lease payments of $10,000, with…

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US private equity firm acquires controlling stake in JinkoSolar’s American operations

Kelly Pickerel — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:28:09 +0000

Private equity firm FH Capital has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 75.1% stake in JinkoSolar’s U.S. subsidiary. Jinko will retain a 24.9% minority interest. This means there is a new controlling ownership of Jinko’s 2-GW solar panel assembly facility in Florida. FH Capital says it will provide additional capital to double the…

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Reactivate funds solar workforce program for 50 Tribal Nations members

Billy Ludt — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:54:03 +0000

Reactivate, a subsidiary of independent power producer Invenergy, is partnering with Tribal Energy Alternatives (TEA) to support clean energy workforce training for members in Tribal Nations. Funded through Reactivate’s Renewable Energy Equity Foundation (REEF), this partnership will train up to 50 Tribal members through a solar curriculum, providing hands-on installation experience, industry certifications and the…

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Summit Ridge completes latest community solar project with LBA, Black Bear

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:25:50 +0000

Summit Ridge Energy has completed a 1.62-MW community solar project in Melrose Park, Illinois. The rooftop system was developed in collaboration with with LBA Logistics, a full-service real estate investment and management company, and Black Bear Energy, a commercial buyer’s representative specializing in onsite renewable energy. Hosted on an industrial building owned by LBA, the Melrose…

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Clearway Energy completes 320-MW storage project complementing existing solar arrays

Billy Ludt — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:15:47 +0000

Clearway Energy has brought online on the 320-MW Honeycomb Energy Center, which is comprised of four 80-MW battery energy storage systems delivering 1,280 MWh of power reserves to the region. The facilities are contracted under 20-year agreements with utility PacifiCorp, and each storage system is constructed adjacent to solar projects owned and operated by Clearway.…

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CertainTeed launches roof- and ground-mount systems for its own solar panels

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:39:35 +0000

CertainTeed is expanding into solar mounting with its two new systems: Solstice Mounting System and Solstice Ground Mount. The roofing and building materials company produces solar shingles and full-sized solar panels for the U.S. market. The Solstice Mounting System joins its solar rooftop product portfolio to provide installers with a single, fully engineered solution. CertainTeed’s…

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Hawaii legislators voting on bill threatening state’s solar market

Billy Ludt — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:04:46 +0000

The Hawaii Legislature is reviewing a tax relief bill that could come at the cost of the state’s renewable energy tax credit program, and in turn, its solar market. In January, Sen. Ronald Kouchi (D) introduced SB 3125, a bill drafted to reduce the economic weight of taxes on low-to-middle-income residents in Hawaii. The state…

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University research: Rear-hanging cable shading doesn’t affect bifacial solar project output

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:53:24 +0000

According to a new white paper from Arizona State University (ASU), rear-hanging cables on bifacial solar projects do not contribute enough shading to affect performance or reliability of projects. The white paper, “Impact of Rear-Hanging String-Cable-Bundle Shading on Performance Parameters of Bifacial Photovoltaic Modules,” was written by Dr. GovindaSamy Tamizhmani, a research professor and the…

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SEG Solar to open second solar panel factory in Texas

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:16:34 +0000

Texas-based solar panel manufacturer SEG Solar plans to open a new 4-GW module assembly factory in Houston. The new factory will join SEG’s existing 2-GW panel factory to bring the company’s total annual U.S. module production capacity to 6 GW. SEG is investing $200 million into the new 500,000-ft2 that should begin module production in…

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Qcells to manufacture residential battery system in Michigan

Kelly Pickerel — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:01:53 +0000

Qcells announced it will collaborate with contractor manufacturer Jabil to make residential energy storage systems in Michigan. Assembled at Jabil’s Auburn Hills, Michigan facility, the new LFP battery storage system is a domestic-content-eligible version of Qcells’ third-generation residential ESS, known as Q.HOME CORE G3. The product is now commercially available and ready to ship to…

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Solar foundations manufacturer American Steel and Aluminum expands operations

Billy Ludt — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:59:40 +0000

Contract manufacturer American Steel and Aluminum (ASA) has opened a new 50,000 sq-ft facility in Syracuse, New York, to meet growing demand from markets including renewable energy. This is ASA’s second facility in Syracuse. The company hopes to shorten product lead times and introduce new processing capabilities in this new plant. “This expansion is a…

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Renew Risk launches severe storm model for US market

Kelly Pickerel — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:23:59 +0000

Risk analytics company Renew Risk today launched its U.S. severe convective storm model. The model provides insurers, reinsurers and brokers the ability to understand and price solar risk. With more projects in the United States being larger, more complex and increasingly located in catastrophe-prone regions, insurers have a unique challenge in assessing risk. Renew Risk’s…

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Op-ed: NERC compliance is critical to national energy security

Kellie Macpherson, EVP of Compliance & Security, Radian Generation — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:56 +0000

The cybersecurity risks our nation’s energy infrastructure is facing are not hypothetical — they are increasingly visible and growing steadily. Recently, Solar Power World’s Managing Editor Billy Ludt highlighted this growing concern in his article on solar inverter advancements and the urgent need for stronger cybersecurity protocols. As he outlined, distributed energy resources (DERs) are…

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Snake Tray celebrates 30th anniversary

Kelly Pickerel — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:58:54 +0000

Snake Tray is celebrating its 30th year, marking three decades of American manufacturing and innovation in cable management, power distribution and enclosure solutions. Founded on a simple idea to improve installation efficiency in the datacom industry, Snake Tray introduced a flexible cable tray system designed to reduce time, labor and material costs. The original tray…

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